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Citizen journalism sites around the world can be an excellent resource for XO-bearing children. |
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== Global Voices == |
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The way it work is that a user creates an account, signs in to [http://www.groundreport.com GroundReport], and starts writing. She creates her title, writes the story, and can add images or links. When she's done, she hits "Submit"--and the article is instantly published. |
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Global Voices Online is an international community devoted to bridging cultural divides by conveying populra blogs within a culture and language to others around the world, across language and geographic barriers. It is looking for ways to amplify the voices of the underserved on the web, and expose people interested in world developments to local issues facing people in every country. GV is also considering ways it can reach out to new underheard communities, including younger people, in these regions. |
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== GroundReport == |
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In addition, readers rate articles, moving them up or down the page. Thus there is a bottom-up model for determining what makes the front page. Further, GroundReport is supported by advertising revenues, but shares them proporationally with writers. For OLPC, GroundReport could commit 100% associated ad revenues to help fund the initiative. |
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Rachel Sterne of the site is also working on a project in Darfur, broadcasting television live from the ground there. |
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GroundReport is a tool for democratizing news coverage, and is meant to serve as an alternative to mainstream media outlets. It gives everyone a platform for self-expression. Children would practice written expression, feel a sense of empowerment as they track the popularity of articles, and harness to power of the internet to tell the world about their lives. |
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If you are interested in exploring this further, please contact me at: |
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rachel at groundreport dot com |
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Latest revision as of 00:13, 21 December 2007
Citizen journalism sites around the world can be an excellent resource for XO-bearing children.
Global Voices
Global Voices Online is an international community devoted to bridging cultural divides by conveying populra blogs within a culture and language to others around the world, across language and geographic barriers. It is looking for ways to amplify the voices of the underserved on the web, and expose people interested in world developments to local issues facing people in every country. GV is also considering ways it can reach out to new underheard communities, including younger people, in these regions.
GroundReport
GroundReport.com is an open news portal requiring CC licensing that enables anyone to self-publish articles. They wrote to offer support for OLPC, and would like to see millions of children be empowered to take part in global discussions (see the talk page for more).
Rachel Sterne of the site is also working on a project in Darfur, broadcasting television live from the ground there.